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Posted on 09/24/2025 9:48:57 AM PDT by Signalman
A lone shooter who opened fire on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Wednesday morning left agents with chilling messages explaining why their workplace was being targeted in the brazen attack.
The gunman, who initial reports described as a white male, shot himself after being confronted by responding officers on a nearby rooftop. He used a sniper rifle in the attack, according to ICE Director Todd Lyons.
At a press conference, FBI Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock said the Dallas, Texas detention center was likely targeted because the shooter had a deeply-held animosity for ICE.
“What I can also tell you is that early evidence that we’ve seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ICE in nature,” he explained.
The shooting is the second to unfold at a Texas ICE facility this year. On July 4, a group of assailants stormed an ICE facility near Fort Worth, wounding one employee in the neck. A dozen suspects were arrested in connection with the coordinated attack.
On Wednesday, the attacker’s playbook seemed eerily familiar.
“This is just the most recent example of this type of attack,” Rothrock added.
Earlier that morning, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X that the shooting resulted in “multiple injuries and fatalities” and also confirmed that the shooter took his own life. Later reports confirmed that at least one person is dead and three others were wounded.
“While we don’t know the motive yet, we know that our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them. It must stop,” Noem said. “Please pray for the victims and their families.”
Images from the scene showed a heavy police presence, with dozens of vehicles flashing their lights and cordoning off the facility, which sits less than 30 minutes outside downtown Dallas.
Fox News reported that the shooting occurred when detainees were being brought into a port of the facility, where the gunman was able to strike at least three people.
Also this year, a gunman was killed after storming the offices of the U.S. Border Patrol before being shot and killed.
President Donald Trump and immigration authorities have accused Democratic politicians of inciting violence against ICE officers by referring to them as Nazis and “Gestapo” soldiers.
“You impede a federal ICE officer, you’re going to jail,” border czar Tom Homan said in July after DHS reported a 700% increase in threats against ICE agents.
“You put hands on an officer, you’re going to jail. You knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien, you’re going to jail. You throw a rock at an ICE officer, you’re going to jail. You damage a government vehicle, you’re going to jail. This s**t stops now.”
“I said, if the rhetoric continues against ICE officers in the Border Patrol, there will there will be bloodshed.” Homan added. “When you got senators and congressmen comparing ICE to Nazis, racists, Gestapo. It’s just never-ending, and when an average citizen hears that kind of language from a member of Congress, they feel, you know, the nuts on the left… they feel emboldened.”
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I read that thread.
😁........................
“He used a sniper rifle in the attack...”
Where do you buy one?.............🤔”
Any good deer rifle with a quality scope, well sighted in will qualify.
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